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- From: geb@dsl.pitt.edu (gordon e. banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: Benzodiazepine Reaction
- Message-ID: <15930@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 17:03:36 GMT
- References: <2570015@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>
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- Organization: Decision Systems Laboratory, Univ. of Pittsburgh, PA.
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- In article <2570015@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM> billm@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Bill Miner) writes:
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- >thing as an adverse reaction and physicians whom I've asked shrug their
- >shoulders and say they've not seen it clinically except for me. I'm curious
- >if anyone on the net might know or can take an educated guess as to the
- >mechanism at work here. Has anyone seen this response clinically?
- >
- I've not seen this, but I'll take a guess. You overcame the stuttering
- by programming some circuits in your brain, perhaps in the frontal lobes.
- When you take benzodiazepenes, these circuits are inhibited and the
- previous behavior escapes. Does it happen with alcohol?
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